Every summer night, in some Spanish towns, locals and tourists come together in parks to experience an outdoors 35mm screening. People work restlessly to make this possible in long days that can very well be their last.
In Ordos, China, thousands of farmers are being relocated in another city due to a government plan to modernize the region. The documentary follows a government official whose job is to convince the workers of moving to the city.
In China, during the Ming Dynasty, Gu works as a painter and leads a quiet life with her mother. Until she meets a mysterious young woman, the daughter of a murdered policeman, who’s looked for by some agents that intend to eradicate all traces of her family.
Parravicini plays his characteristic scoundrel-with-a-heart in this tragic melodrama of seduction, sacrifice and abandonment that is also a comedy of manners.